‘Permanently Destroy’ Scott Walker Evidence Rules Court Stacked With Conservative Judges
The Wisconsin Supreme Court handed Scott Walker a huge political victory by declaring that he broke no campaign finance laws and that all evidence in the case must be permanently destroyed.
“To be clear, this conclusion ends the … investigation because the special prosecutor’s legal theory is unsupported in either reason or law,” Justice Michael Gableman wrote in a majority opinion effectively ending the so-called John Doe probe into Walker’s fundraising.
The sweeping nature of the ruling by a sharply divided court — in which four conservative justices sided with Walker and two liberals with the state prosecutor — pulls the plug on a three-year probe that threatened to expose new details about millions of dollars in secret contributions the Wisconsin governor personally solicited from wealthy donors to defend his record during a bitter 2012 recall election.
But the ruling seems unlikely to end the political controversy spurred by the probe, which had become a lightning rod in the broader debate over the role of so-called dark money in American politics. Critics immediately noted that two of the justices on the court who ruled in Walker’s favor had been elected with $10 million in contributions from outside advocacy groups, which don’t disclose their donors and which were the very subjects of the Walker investigation.
And the prospect that voluminous records, including emails and memos written by Walker and his top campaign aides, will now be destroyed could well become an issue for transparency advocates.
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9 responses to ‘Permanently Destroy’ Scott Walker Evidence Rules Court Stacked With Conservative Judges
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tracey marie July 16th, 2015 at 23:05
cheating, lying and now covering up evidence…the right
Kick Frenzy July 16th, 2015 at 23:08
Isn’t that a conflict of interest?
“Nope, we co-operated the whole time!”
alpacadaddy July 16th, 2015 at 23:30
… this on the heels of Wall-Eye’s failed attempt to gut Wisconsin open record laws to further hide & obfuscate his sorry Koch-backed malfeasance! (and DESTROY evidence?, what happened to simply filing it away in case of appeal?… Oh, I forgot, we’re not dealing with just ANYONE here… it’s a REPUBLICON!
kopfsammer July 17th, 2015 at 09:28
When are records ever destroyed? How f’in obvious are they being? Horrifying that this is not only being allowed, but they’re allowed to be so blatantly corrupt in full view of their “constituents”.
Tommie July 17th, 2015 at 01:26
“The Supreme Court handed Scott Walker a huge political victory”, while the Wisconsin Supreme Court was handed a huge check from the Koch brothers!
The Original Just Me July 17th, 2015 at 05:14
Do I hear someone screaming ; ” On to the U.S. Supreme Court .”
Warman1138 July 17th, 2015 at 06:36
Hmmmmmmm you can smell the money, from one end of the country to the other.
anothertoothpick July 17th, 2015 at 07:34
This guy has been cheating at elections since he was in high school and reminds me of Carl Rove.
Remember how Carl Rove tipped over Florida and got dubya “appointed” to the white house?
Walker has these kind of skills. And is willing to use them. Even if it risks jail.
With Koch Brothers money and Carl Rove cheating skills This is the guy we have to worry about.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/05/scott-walker-wisconsin-supreme-court
Foundryman July 17th, 2015 at 11:37
We’ve have never seen the level of corruption that’s been happening in Wisconsin. When a corrupt governor can get away with anything with full support of a corrupt supreme court and corrupt statehouse, all of democracy is in danger. This is what they want to bring to the entire country.